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                    [ArticleID] => 687512
                    [Title] => Crucial case
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This is a case that happened nine years, seven months and seven days ago to be exact that could be very crucial in establishing or disproving, with some degree of certainty, the prevailing notion about the kind of justice system in this country...

[DatePublished] => 2011-05-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133340 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804883 [AuthorName] => Jose C. Sison [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 374667 [Title] => 8 immigration officials summoned [Summary] => A Department of Justice fact-finding panel subpoenaed eight Bureau of Immigration officials to explain their side in the questionable deportation of two foreigners, including one who is an alleged terrorist wanted by the US government.

The panel is investigating why Chinese national Zhang Du and a Vietnamese, Vo Van Duc were deported. Vo is wanted in the United States for alleged terrorism while Zhang is currently on trial for kidnapping.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 374137 [Title] => 8 immigration officials summoned [Summary] => A Department of Justice fact-finding panel subpoenaed eight Bureau of Immigration officials to explain their side in the questionable deportation of two foreigners, including one who is an alleged terrorist wanted by the US government.

The panel is investigating why Chinese national Zhang Du and a Vietnamese, Vo Van Duc were deported. Vo is wanted in the United States for alleged terrorism while Zhang is currently on trial for kidnapping.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 372289 [Title] => Deportation for sale [Summary] => Why am I not surprised at all on the latest huffing and puffing by some lawmakers over the alleged "freedom for sale" by some unscrupulous elements in the Bureau of Immigration (BI)? As far as I’m concerned, it is like the refrain of an old song that is repeated over and over again. [DatePublished] => 2006-11-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136417 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097308 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva1 [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 369251 [Title] => 3 BI execs urged to go on leave [Summary] => Three commissioners of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) were urged yesterday to go on leave to prevent them from influencing witnesses in a projected House inquiry into an alleged "freedom-for-sale" scam.

In making the appeal, Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers, who exposed the alleged irregularity two days ago, told a news forum in Quezon City that "prudence and propriety dictate that they go on leave."
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 349705 [Title] => The weakest link [Summary] => Law enforcement agencies, prosecution service, the judiciary, the penal system and the citizenry are said to be the five pillars of the criminal justice system in the country. Any shortcoming, or lapse, or failure of any one of the five pillars will frustrate the ends of justice and this might cause the whole structure to collapse, to put it dramatically.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136417 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097308 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva1 [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 315728 [Title] => DOJ to prove ‘escape-for-a-fee’ in Philippine jails [Summary] => The Department of Justice (DOJ) will use a Sri Lankan national, an inmate at the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation (BID) detention in Camp Bagong Diwa in Bicutan Taguig, to prove that there is an existing "escape-for-a-fee" scheme being peddled inside Philippine jails.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 315438 [Title] => Stripped of perks, BI detainees blow whistle [Summary] => Feeling the discomfort of prison after their cell phones and TV sets were taken away, seven detainees of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) have voluntarily divulged information on the alleged "escape" of four detainees, including Chinese kidnap for ransom suspect Zhang Du.

National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Regional Director Reynaldo Esmeralda said they have started taking statements from the "whistleblowers" in connection with the escape from the BI Bictutan Detention Center in Taguig.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096905 [AuthorName] => Evelyn Macairan [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 313398 [Title] => BI chief: I’m not quitting [Summary] => Immigration Commissioner Alipio Fernandez Jr. said yesterday he would not resign over last Monday’s escape of a suspect in the illegal deportation of kidnap suspect Zhang Du and two other Chinese nationals, insisting that he has been doing his job.

Fernandez downplayed calls for his dismissal raised by kidnap victim Jackie Tiu following the escape of Keerthi Jamahaya, a Sri Lankan national who was among those charged by the National Bureau of Investigation in connection with Zhang’s flight last May 7.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096875 [AuthorName] => Edu Punay [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 313074 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Rot at the immigration bureau [Summary] => Someone must be preparing for a very merry Christmas at the Bureau of Immigration. First, a Chinese man on trial for kidnapping, Zhang Du, was deported under circumstances that the BI still cannot fully explain. Now a Sri Lankan accused of facilitating the deportation of Zhang has escaped from the BI detention center in Bicutan, Taguig.

Keerthi Jayamaha walked out of jail together with two Chinese men being held for drug trafficking, Tan Ti Shao and Go Sak Ping.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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